Sidi Boushaki

Sidi Boushaki
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Sidi Boushaki (1394 ce/796 ah – 1453 ce/857 ah) was born near the town of Thenia, 54 km east of Algiers. He was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics.

Biography

Sidi Boushaki Ez-Zaouaoui was born in 1394 in Aïth Aïcha, at Tizi Naïth Aïcha, in the Khechna massif, an extension of Djurdjura.

He began his studies in the village of Soumâa (Thala Oufella) in Thénia in 1398.

He went to Béjaïa in 1404, very young, to continue his studies.

There he studied the Koran and the Malékite fiqh.

He was a pupil in Malékite fiqh at "Abu Alhassan Ali Ibn Othman", a recognized theologian from Kabylie.

Bejaia was at the beginning of the fifteenth century a religious center and a place of influence of Sufism.

He made his destination in 1406 to Tunis, where he deepened his knowledge of Maliki.

There he studied the tafsir of the Koran at the judge Abu Abdallah Al Kalchani.

He received the Malikite fiqh from Yaakub Ez-Zaghbi.

He was a student of Abdelwahed Al Fariani in the foundations (Oussoul) of Islam.

He returned in 1409 to the mountains of Béjaïa where he deepened in Arabic at Abd El Aali Ibn Ferradj.

He went to Constantine in 1410 where he lived for many years.

He received the teachings in the Muslim faith (Aslain) and logic in "Abu Zeid Abderrahmane", nicknamed "El Bez".

He studied prose, verse, fiqh and the majority of the theological sciences of the time at Ibn Marzouk El Hafid (ar) (1365 - 1439), the Maghreb scholar who had visited Constantine to preach his knowledge , not to be confused with his father Ibn Marzouk El Khatib (1310 - 1379).

He joined Mecca for pilgrimage and study.

He died in 1453, and was buried in the Thénia Mountains in his native Kabyle tribe.